COUNTING DAYS is a text-based Gemara mini-series focused on the Mitzvah of Sefirat Ha"Omer, the annual Post-Passover Counting of Days that leads us up to Shavuot -- the holiday commemorating the Giving of the Torah. The series began with the Reaping of fresh Barley for the firstling grain offering called The Omer, the eponymous source for our national count-up commandment. Tractate Menachot, Page 65b -- FORTNITE FESTIVAL continues with the presentation of two more persuasive demonstrations as to the veracity of time-honoured Torah tradition regarding timing for Omer Counting. The focus will be on Pilgrim Holiday Scheduling and Calendrical Calculations. In this Episode, we will study the concluding arguments [of this four-part segment] of the Sages regarding the proper time to begin Sefirat Ha’Omer, the commandment to Count Days upon bringing a Firstling Grain Gift to G-d to schedule the immediate next Festival: Shavuot! Here, even greater clarity will be obtained by virtue of the Torah’s juxtaposition on the unique biblical terminology used to describe the proverbial Omer Offering alongside the Giant Breads of Pentecost. Comprising yet another ironclad proof of our Torah- true tradition about for the timing of this Mitzvah, this further defends us from the theological attacks of ancient Heretical Jewish Sects. To be sure, while these spiritual deviants have long ago faded into historical irrelevance, their heretical notions have continued to evolve and metastasize n in new, equally toxic forms of deviant theology -- even today! This sixth segment of the series -- entitled FORTNITE FESTIVAL -- on Sefirat Ha'Omer has been generously sponsored by Felix and Rita Zilnik to commemorate the Yahrzeit Rita’s father Yona ben David.

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COUNTING DAYS is a text-based Gemara mini-series focused on the Mitzvah of Sefirat Ha"Omer, the annual Post-Passover Counting of Days that leads us up to Shavuot -- the holiday commemorating the Giving of the Torah. The series began with the Reaping of fresh Barley for the firstling grain offering called The Omer, the eponymous source for our national count-up commandment. Tractate Menachot, Page 65b -- COUNT ON ME highlights the competing units of time created by the orbit of the heavenly luminary's vs the segments ordained by sunrise and sunset -- comprising an unchanging increment of days and nights. In this Episode we are continuing the analysis of the Torah’s precise biblical terminology about the sanctification of Rosh Chodesh, and the sanctification of Shavuot. By method of the Thirteen Hermeneutical Principals, seemingly unrelated Mitzvot are fused in common legality. This illuminates the timing of the unique commandment to Count Days upon bringing a Firstling Grain Gift to G-d. This leads to an unmistakable Torah truth about our tradition for the timing of this Mitzvah as our Sages continue to demonstrate the veracity of our sacred unbroken traditions, thereby defending them from theological challenges put forward by an ancient Heretical Jewish Sect. While these specific Sects have long ago ceased to exist, their heretical notions continue to live on - even in this post-modern era. Out of the challenges launched by these detractors, came a flowering and profusion of Torah insight. Vastly transcending their historical necessity, these ideas and discoveries went on to remain an important part of our inspired Torah tradition. This fifth segment of the series entitled COUNTING DAYS on Sefirat Ha'Omer has been generously sponsored by Michelle Kahn Celebrating the life of her brother Meechael Kalman Ben Tzvi Mordechai (z”l) on his Yahrtzeit, Rosh Chodesh Iyar.

COUNTING DAYS is a text-based Gemara mini-series focused on the Mitzvah of Sefirat Ha"Omer, the annual Post-Passover Counting of Days that leads us up to Shavuot -- the holiday commemorating the Giving of the Torah. The series began with the Reaping of fresh Barley for the firstling grain offering called The Omer, the eponymous source for our national count-up commandment. Tractate Menachot, Page 65b -- THE HOLIDAY CALENDAR II features a Deciphering of Divine Dates to Schedule G-d's Meetings! In this Episode we are introduced to Torah teachings brought forth by Sages in the need to defend our sacred unbroken traditions from theological challenges put forward by an ancient Heretical Jewish Sect. While these Sects have long been discarded into the dustbin of history, their heretical notions continue to plague us, and the record of the give-and-take is ever relevant. As our Sages theologically locked horns with these heretical detractors of Torah Judaism, many were inspired to mine cryptic biblical verses in greater depth. In doing so layers of hidden meaning were freshly revealed. In part two of THE HOLIDAY CALENDAR, we begin to review the first two teachings which analyze the scriptural scheduling of the Chagim, and are privy to their then novel insights. This is the fourth Episode of the series entitled COUNTING DAYS on Sefirat Ha'Omer.

COUNTING DAYS is a text-based Gemara mini-series focused on the Mitzvah of Sefirat Ha"Omer, the annual Post-Passover Counting of Days that leads us up to Shavuot -- the holiday commemorating the Giving of the Torah. The series began with the Reaping of fresh Barley for the firstling grain offering called The Omer, the eponymous source for our national count-up commandment. Tractate Menachot, Page 65b - THE HOLIDAY CALENDAR | More about a major Torah Triumphs in Antiquity. Fascinating details on an important theological debate that had an enormous impact of Jewish Life, Religious Observance, and the course of History! In Part Three we continue to analyze the second of two of major struggles between Torah Judaism and non-Halachic pseudo-religious Jewish movements. As the supreme Torah Leader of the day enters the fray, a surprising line of reasoning is introduced. In looking beneath the simplistic surface, we learn to appreciate the profundity of his sage approach. This is the third Episode of the series entitled COUNTING DAYS on Sefirat Ha'Omer.

The Torah’s instructions about Sefirat HaOmer are precise; it must be an intact and perfect endeavour. Straightforwardly; this means each day must be counted from the night prior, thereby including the full range of each segment. An additional idea is introduced: all days must be counted in totality to account for a complete and proper Mitzvah fulfilment. Traced to their earliest sources, disparate schools of thought are presented and elucidated. Reconciliation and extraordinary insight into the counting’s nature spill over into Yiddishkeit, and ultimately life itself!

Delving into Sefirat HaOmer – ritual counting from Pesach to Shavuot – the slightly disparate narrative of biblical verses lead into unique understandings of this Torah mandate, and how it might be performed in the post-temple exilic era, as separate schools of thought emerge regarding the nature this commandment today. The dominant opinion that modern-day counting is performed by rabbinic ordination alone, begs a question: how does a man-made Mitzvah create a divinely ordained festival? Remarkable insight into the counting and its effects ensues!

The mitzvah of Sefirat HaOmer is individually performed each year as we reckon the opening days of Israel's harvest; counting up from Pesach to Shavuot. Curiously, a time-honored and sacred tradition emphasizes that this “counting” must be performed when in upright “standing” position. By tracing back to a wide range of early sources, we develop a deeper appreciation of this rule; and ultimately emerge with a solid understanding of why our physical posture has important bearing on our duty to verbalize the daily count.